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FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 25
Men may rise on stepping
stones
Of their dead seines to higher
things.
—Tennyson.
ALL FOR ONE; ONE FOR ALL
AS the first move in a State-wide
campaign to increase crop pro
duction the .New York Agri
cultural Society announces that pub
lic-spirited financiers of New York
city will extend unlimited credit
to the farmers of New York and
neighboring States to enable them
to buy seed and fertilizers and to
pay for labor and other expenses.
The money will be loaned through
local committees of the Grange or
other agricultural organizations. No
mortgage will be asked on farm,
crops or tools. The only guarantee
required will be an approved indi
vidual application, with a note signed
by the farmer, bearing 4% per cent,
interest. The headquarters of the
loan organization will be the Chase
National Bank, with Marc W. Cole,
of Albion, as secretary. It is not
V necessary to be a member of any
\ farm organization to secure a loan.
Any farmer of good moral charac-
V ter will be accepted. Notes are pay
' able December 1 and are renewable i
if for good reasons the crop is un- i
sold.
These Items in the news recall the
Important patriotic services now be
ing rendered to the country by the
captains of industry and finance who
only a few months back were being
so ferociously attacked in the halls
of government at Washington. Bank
ers who were accused of every crime
on the calendar short of murder are
rushing forward to keep the Lib
erty Loan from the rocks. Man
agers of big industries, charged with
having no thought beyond exor
bitant profits, have laid aside their
own business cares at a time when
their guidance is more needed than
ever and have given their services
wholeheartedly and unreservedly to
the government. A son of the great
est department store magnate in the
country and a son of an ex-President
have volunteered as privates in the
ranks of the regular army. These
are but examples.
This war is destined to bring out
true worth among men of all walks'
of life. The sheep will be separated
from the goats on the basis of in
dividual merit and good citizenship.
The stamp of wealth will be obliter
ated by the mud of the trenches.
The cause of democracy will be ad
vanced tremendously.
DO IT NOW
THE late David T. Watson, of
Pittsburgh, a distinguished
lawyer, provided in his will
lor an important philanthropy, in
structing his widow to put the be
quest into effect. She died a few
months later without doing so, and
it is now a question whether Mr.
Watson's generous plan will ever
materialize for the public good. An
other instance of the importance of
men and women doing what they
want to do while they are in the
flesh.
STATE STREET MONUMENT
THE recent death of one wo
man at'the State street monu
ment and the serious injury of
another a few days ago, both victims
of a passing automobile, emphasize
the importance of removing the
memorial stone to another location.
This suggestion has been made from
time to time, but nothing has been
done.
Some opposition was developed
•when the proposition of setting up
the monument at another location
was . first broached, but as the con
gestion of traffic increases it becomes
more apparent that it will be neces
sary to place the shaft elsewhere,
either on'the River Front or at some
point on the Allison Hill bluff over
looking tho Capitol.
If any disrespect to the memory
of the gallant soldier dead, in whose
memory the obelisk was erected, was
involved in the change to another
location this newspaper would op
pose the transfer to the finish, but
we fail to see that the mere fact of
a different site can be misconstrued
as in any way lack of respect for the
honored soldiers —living or dead.
A few years ago the Mexican
monument In Capitol Park was mov
ed from Its original position to an
other site In the park without even
the suggestion of criticism. Public
FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 25, 1917.
safety la the strongest argument for
the removal of the State street
monument to another location.
News from the front will make
every Italian-born citizen of America
hold up his head with pride.
SWEET ADVERSITY
SWEET are the uses of adver
sity, which, though ugly and
venomous, like the toad, yet
weareth a precious jewel in its head,"
sang Shakespeare, and the people of
this country are about to realize in
the enforced substitution of corn for
wheat as an article of daily diet that
there is both truth and poetry in the
sentiment.
Take corn bread, for example.
Corn bread went out of fashion
about the time the "five cent" loaf
came in, and now that the "five cent"
loaf has gone out, maybe corn
bread will "come back." Goodness
knows there is strength and nourish
ment enough In a pan of "pone" to
push a half dozen of the puny little
wafers that now masquerade under
the guise of wheat bread loaves clear
oft the dinlngroom table. Beside
that, a slab of hot corn bread, to
which has been liberally applied a
generous coating of butter (or oleo,
for that matter) is to a pale, taste
less slice of white bread as a thick,
juicy piece of broiled sirloin is to
a bit of fried round steak. And
when to that is added honey, or
maple syrup, or just plain molasses,
s'ou have a full meal that might
gladden the heart of an epicure.
Then, too, there is mush and hom
iny. Remember how you used to
get outside of about two quarts of
mush and milk for supper and then
eat what was left of the mush next
morning for breakfast, fried to a
golden brown and transformed from
a mere article of diet into a confec
tion by that good old "sugar house"
syrup that refiners unfortunately
have since forgotten how to make?
Well, corn meal is just as good for
such purposes as ever. And, also,
there is hominy. The fellow who
made a joke of "hog and hominy"
must have been a hopeless dyspeptic,
for when the "hog" ccnies in the
way of crisp fried bacon and hominy
in cakes well browned and smoking
hot, the stomach that would demand
anything more than that combina
tion or anything less than as much
as it could comfortably stow away,
must be a poor, pampered thing
scarcely worth the trouble to feed.
If adversity during the war brings
nothing worse than a shortage of
wheat bread and a reversal to corn,
let us have adversity and lots of it
Eighty-seven men have been ar
rested in New York for conspiracy to
control the price of onions. May we
be forgiven for suggesting that the
Government ought to be able to make
out a strong indictment.
PRESIDENTIAL SUFFRAGE
THE suffragists who are con
tending for the right to vote in
presidential elections, following
the defeat of the general suffrage
resolution at the hands of the Legis
lature, have the argument on their
side that by denying this to them
Pennsylvania would be placed at a
disadvantage among the other states
of the Union where women are en
titled to vote for president.
Like it or not, as we may, woman
suffrage, like prohibition, is coming,
and while the entering vedge in this
Commonwealth may be the presiden
tial vote, it nevertheless is true that
Pennsylvania does not have votes
in proportion to its population-as
compared with those western states
where women have the ballot in na
tional elections.
"British bands play when Ameri
cans land," says the New York Sun.
Yep, the band always begins to play
when Americans go to battle.
THROWING DUST AGAIN
IF certain Democratic bosses and
their newspaper mouthpieces will
give less attention to the alleged
partisan activity of Republicans- at
Washington and more to avoidance
of the same activity on their own
part the public will be more im
pressed with their sincerity and con
sistency.
Instances of Democratic partisan
ship and political interference in ad
ministrative matters and appoint
ments are so frequent that Repub
licans are not disposed to accept
these diatribes with patience. Throw
ing of partisan dust to conceal po
litical activities is an old and well
understood game.
RESPECT FOR NATIONAL AIR
THERE is a proper move in the
Legislature to enact a law
which will restrict to some ex
tent the use of the national anthem.
As some one has suggested, there is
too much "slap-stick" patriotism in
the United States. We are losing
sight of the meaning of the national
air in the promiscuo is use of this
inspiring appeal to lo e of country.
It may not be generally known
that the committee which had in
charge the Chamber of Commerce
arrangements for the visit of Mar
shal Joffre to Harrishurg was re
quested to have the Marseilles play
ed only in a formal way and not
upon the march or In any other
manner that would be out of har
mony with the French idea of their
great national hymn. It was pro
vided, in short, that the Marseilles
should be played in front of the
Capitol while all present stood at
"attention."
More and more we are beginning
to realize what is back of the flag
and the sentiments which are given
expression by our great national
anthem. In one of the training
camps where many of the Harris
burg boys are now being taught the
duties of the soldier last Sunday all
stood at attention and saiuted while
the "Star {Spangled Banner" was
played.
It Is well that some definite under
standing be had as to when and how
the national air should be properly
rendered.
ToliUct. CK
By the Kz-Commlttecixian
Prompt confirmation by the Senate
of the appointment of Dr. Nathan
C. Shaeffer, of Lancaster, for an
other term of four years as Superin
tendent of Public Instruction, will
probably be followed by submission
of other appointments to the Sen
ate by the Governor in the opinion of
people at the Capitol. There are
some who see an adjustment of dif
ferences between the executive and
the Senators over appointments and
predictions were made to-day that
some of the officials' tohose very
names evoked sharp words last Jan
uary might be confirmed.
Governor Brumbaugh has declin
ed to indicate what he will do and is
said to be insistent in the matter of
appointments, but some of his
friends have represented that a pol
icy of give and take is sometimes
advisable in the second Legislature
of a Governor's term and it would
not be surprising to see some ap
pointments made which could be
classed as neutral at least. In the
event that this happens there would
probably be less difficulty about se
curing confirmation of public service
commisioners, secretary of agricul
ture and others.
: —Senator William E. Crow, the
Republican State chairman, has been
the biggest factor in keeping down
outbursts of partisanship at the Cap
itol. The senator, who was a com
manding figure when the Legislature
opened, is now close to being the
most influential man in the general
assembly and has time and again
smoothed out unpleasant situations.
If there is brought about any condi
tion whereby troubles are composed
it will be to the credit of the Fay
ette senator who has labored to keep
party lines intact and taken a good
many knocks for his pains.
—Senator Crow has been frequent
ly mentioned for Governor, but is
disinclined to enter the race. He has
deprecated the use of his name and
told friends that he has about all he
can attend to just now.
—Newspapers of the State attach
significance to the dinner to be given
at the Harrisburg Club next Tuesday
night by Senator E. H. Vare and
other senators to Senator W. C.
Sproul. The Pittsburgh Gazette-
Times expresses the opinion that it
may be to launch a gubernatorial
boom, but that in any event it will
emphasize the cordiality existing be
tween senators who were at logger
heads over the administration of af
fairs in Pennsylvania not so many
months ago.
—Philadelphia Ledger is advocat
ing the passage of the law to make
the directors of the Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh school districts elective.
It says almost any change is prefer
able to the present system of judi
cial appointment of executive bodies.
—The Philadelphia Bulletin re
marks "adjournment at the Harris
burg must wait until business is fin
ished."
—Steps are being taken in court
at Pottsville to bar use of saloons
as polling places and the movement,
if it succeeds in the coal region, will
undoubtedly spread throughout the
State.
—The trial of the Westmoreland
county poor directors charged with
graft will start this week at Greens
burg.
—William H. Berry, former State
treasurer and now collector of the
port of Philadelphia by grace of the
Democratic State machine, does not
want to stand trial in Chester county
on the charge of libeling Senator T.
L. Eyre. His application for a
change of venue has been refused at
West Chester and he is now petition
ing the Supreme Court to authorize
the change. A year or so ago Berry
was a very valiant crusader.
On European Soil
Our engineers who yesterday
reached England are the first Amer
ican infantry ever to set foot on a
European battlefield. The tide of
exploration, of conquest, of warfare
has set westward for over four cen
turies. To-day we witness the first
eastward wave. The American flag
flies on European soil in a new sense
and with an unprecedented meaning.
The news will bring home to
many of us as nothing else has the
fact that, for better or for worse,
we are committed to the war beyond
thought of withdrawal. It has been
a hard test for the imagination of
\mericans, these thousands of miles
away. We were asked to hazard our
lives and the life of our nation on
a field an ocean to the eastward. We
shall need all our will and vision to
realize the truth and do our share
as earnestly as if the enemy were at
the gate.
Our own men In the trenches will
accomplish all this for ut as nothing
else could. We shall read in their
record, of courage and sacrifice and
death, the far-flung deed of the
America we love. Their hopes will
be our hopes, their trials will be
our trials. We know they will not
fail us.- May we never fail them! —
N Y. Tribune.
Lest They Forget
[Altoona Tribune.]
The voters of Pennsylvania will
accomplish nothing by putting the
Democratic party in control of the
state government. What is needed
is a combination of lovers of good
government upon worthy candidates.
The Kaiser and the Ocean
Said our nation: "We've a notion
That we'd like to cross the ocean
some fine day .
But we'll have to ask the Kaiser—
You'll admit it would be wiser—
If we may!
All the neutrals ask the Kaiser
If they may.
Said the Kaiser, looking pleasant,
You may freely stay, at present—
Where you are on terra flrma . .
It would be, I dare affirm, a
Better way."
All the neutrals ask the Kaiser
If they may.
To the Kaiser said bur nation:
"We enjoy your conversation ,
But to-day—just to-day—-
We have tired of terra firina!
Fate will some times turn a worm a
Little way . .
All the worms have asked the Kaiser
If they may!
Said the Kaiser in vexation:
"Is there aught in palliation
You can say
For your presence on my ocean
Where you're plainly to my notion
In the way?
Neutrals all are to my notion
In the way?"
As a nation we've a notion
That we'd like to cross the ocean
Right away!
And we will not ask the Kaiser,
Who may then be somewhat wiser—
I dare say . . • .
No one then will ask the Kaiser
If he may!
MARTHA DAVIS.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
That Camp Hill Complaint
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
J. B.'s letter in tl.e TELEGRAPH
Wednesday evening complaining of
Camp Hill's lack of a proper system
of garbage disposal cannot go un
answered. Depend upon it, Mr. Edi
tor, you can always get a rise from
Camp Hill citizens when Harris
burg's best suburb is unjustly critl
sised.
Camp Hill should have an ade
quate system of garbage disposal.
The matter has time and again been
discussed by the borough council.
J. B. is either a newcomer, or does
not keep in touch with public af
fairs in the borough. Otherwise he
would know this.
It is true that some physicians
and sanitary experts of the State
Department of Health sojourn In
Camp Hill; it is also true that they
know a great deal about the dan
gers that lurk in garbage: but it Is
also true that they know no more
about municipal affairs in Camp
Hill than we untrained laymen.
Camp Hill has been particularly free
from epidemics. For that we are
thankful. We have had no infantile
paralysis, and for that reason are
unable to aid the medical profes
sion In its search for why, how, when
and where it is. We have some
flies, but not more than other places,
and not nearly as many as some.
J. B. can do his bit. Let him
study Camp Hill's assessed valuation,
its tax rate, its street problem, its
lighting problem, and other matters
under municipal contrpl. After he
has these matters well in mind, the
borough council, no doubt, will very
seriously and deliberately consider
any plans for garbage disposal he
may submit.
Yours truly,
M. E. H.
The Liberty Loan
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Knowing your interest in the Lib
erty Loan, I am sure that you will
be glad to learn that the Aetna Com
panies, whih have become so vital a
part of Harrisburg affairs, have sub
scribed $1,500,000 to the Liberty
Loan.
This sum is divided as follows:
Aetna Life Insurance
Company $1,000,000
Aetna Casualty & Surety ■
Company 250,000
The Automobile Insur
ance Company of Hart
ford 250,000
A very great part of the above will
be taken care of by local agents of
the companies, under a liberal
agreement made at the home office.
I give you this information as it
may be an incentive for other com
panies to do likewise.
Yours very truly.
WM. S. ESSICK,
General Agent.
"We Are to End This War"
Is this liberty of ours, this Land
of the Free, without price? And
will those hold it dear whom it has
cost nothing?
Yet. so great is my faith in this
great nation, so sur* am I that the
principles on which it is built are
enduring, that I believe a'll these
things will be set right in time. The
one thing that matters now is to do
our part, to show to the world that
America still believes that there is
such a thing as honor, and such a
word as right.
For—and this I believe as I do in
my country—we are to end this war.
And that is the greatest privilege
a nation of the world may have. We
have sat by, through such horrors
as have turned the world to blood.
But now we can come in our
strength, and mighty strength it will
be. So rich we are! So strong! So
young!
And the enemy is old—jaded and
crafty and old; as old as cruelty Is
old. We are young and tireless and
unafraid. —Mary Roberts Rlnehart
In "Tho Altar of Freedom."
Charles M. Schwab saytj:—
It is a grave mistake to think that
all the great American fortunes have
been made; that all the country's re
sources have been developed. Men
make opportunity. Every great In
dustrial achievement has been the re
sult of individual effort—the practical
development of a dream in the mind
of an individual.
MODERN WARAND PRO
By
Major General William Harding Carter, U. S. A.
WITH the declaration of war
Germany, and the enactment
of the selective draft law, we
have assumed obligations whose ulti
mate ends no man can foresee. Pri
marily we have now become respon
sible for the preparation of hundreds
of thousands of young men for the
stern duties and hardships of war,
and, in the natural order of things,
they will constitute the human ele
ment available for the nation's de
fense for many years to come. The
nation owes it to the young men
who are selected for military train
ing and service that, from the very
first they shall know that tho train
ing will be carried on under circum
stances above reproach.
The development of minds and
bodies to meet the demands of mili
tary service in war requires not only
the most modern hygienic surround
ings but the absence of every form
of personal dissipation. Any one who
sells or gives intoxicants or drugs of
any kind to young men undergoing
training for the nation')- defense, not
only commits a crime against the in
dividual - but a treasonable act
against the nation.
The experience of European na
tions has made it clear that to main
tain a modern army in the field
there must be organized industry at
home. Anything that militates
against this, by depriving the human
element of its normal energy, work
ing under war pressure, must be
combatted and if need be destroyed.
The public is >far better advised to
day than ever before, concerning the
effects' of the habitual use of intoxi
cants in producing criminal, insane
and untrustworthy men and women
and degenerate children. Prisons,
asylums and public reformatories
furnish continuous and abundant evi
dence along these lines. The in
creasing undisclpline ot Americans
has been observed and noted by in
vestigators and students for many
years. This is evidenced in lack of
respect for parents, for the aged, for
the officers of the law and for the
law itself. It has also been a uni
form observation that these condi
tions become aggravated whenever
and wherever intoxicating liquors
are habitually used. (Confronted with
these facts we are about to under
take the creation of a large
the people, and to prepare it for par
ticipation in the most gigantic
struggle in the history of wars.
When the army was reorganized
in 1901, following the war with
Spain, there was introduced in the
act, prohibitory legislation regarding
the sale of wines and beers upon
miytary reservations. There was
much resentment on the part of the
army at this discriminatory legisla
tion, for while it introduced prohi
bition on reservations it encouraged
border line saloons in surrounding
territory. The aggravation was grave
in States like Kansas where prohibi
tion was a sham and a public dan
ger, the laws being ignored in the
most open and flagrant manner.
Retire Hohenzollerns
[From the New Republic]
The abdication or the overthrow
of the Hohenzollerns would remove
the most serious existing obstacle to
a scienttiic and equitable treaty of
peace. We are not prepared to say
that it should be maae a condition
of peace negotiations, and in any
event It would be far preferable to
have the retirement of the Hohen
icllerns forced by the Germans
themselves than by their enemies.
But however It comes about Us ben
eficial effects can scarcely be exag
gerated.
It would symbolize the rejection
of those feudal survival? In the. Ger
man political and social organiza
tion without which Germany could
never have embarked upon such a
desperate and abortive adventure;
and it would make' the enemies of
Germany far more disposed to ireat
her with confidence and to aban
don any idea of discriminating
against her in their economic and
political arrangements for the fu
ture.
In the course of time following
the abolition of the sale of beer
and wines—alcoholic liquors were
previously barred—on military
vatlons, the naval regulations ban
ished intoxicating drinks frdm war
vessels. Modern battleships, destroy
ers and submarines had become too
complicated to be entrusted in any
part to minds beclouded with drink.
Efficiency and safety of operation
alike demanded the exclusion of
liquors from war vessels and it is
certain that if tho restoration of the
wine mess for the period of the war
were put to a vote of naval officers
it would be overwhelmingly de
feated.
Observing the operations of the
so-called anti-canteen law, which
stopped the sale of wine and beer at
post exchanges or canteens, it was
found that for a time the offenses
involving drunkenness increased at
army posts located in territory where
saloons were permitted to exist. This
was credited to the fact that men
went to considerable distances from
barracks for liquor, and, not ex
pecting to repeat the trip soon, in
dulged in too much for their own
good. The statistics of disciplinary
action through a number of years
seemed to establish that more than
fifty per cent .of the cases of deser
tion and absence without leave were
due to drunkenness.
While the current returns of the
internal revenue bureau of the treas
ury make it appear that the income
from the manufacture of beer and
liquors has steadily increased, there
can be no question that the temper
ance and total abstinence campaigns
of the past few years have brought
about a marked change in American
lifT it is no longer fashionable to
serve wines and liquors in the lavish
way which obtained in former years.
That temperance has won a lasting
victory is attested by the large in
crease in territory covered by pro
hibition laws !jnd In the drastic reg
ulations governing the employment
of men In dangerous occupations,
when individuals may be and often
are responsible for the lives of oth
ers. If this applies in the operation
of railroads and great industrial
establishments, how much more
should it apply in the cases of the
officers and men called to the colors
to uphold the honor of the nation
and to defend its material interests.
Of course it is absurd to inaugu
rate complete prohibition until, as
a nation, we are prepared to aban
don taxation of manufactured intox
icants After many years observation
oi the effects of drink upon our sol
diers it is the unhesitating opinion
of the writer thiit the proceeds of
governmental taxation of stills and
breweries is, to say the least, 110
compensation for the misspent li\cs
and stunted brains of those who
are addicted to drunkenness. If it
requires war time prohibition to in
sure an absolutely sober and
nble army we should have it, and
the sooner the better.
Labor Notes
During 1916, 9,295,538 ounces of
gold were taken from mines In the
Transvaal. This -♦' ' 'ishes a new
record for the R.
Members of the Amalgamated As
sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers are receiving the highest
wages In any period of the world'.*
Iron-making history.
During 1916 2,500,000 pounds of
butter were manufactured by the
Canadian government co-operative
creameries in Saskatchewan. In 1907
the total output was only 66,000
pounds.
A number of the young ladles in
Queen's University, Canada, have
signified their intention of aiding In
the work of harvesting the fruit
In the western part of the provlence
during the summer. .
It is predicted that within a short
'lmo Fresno, Cal., wll have more
wage-earners of foreign birth orgun-
Ized into unions than any oiher city
of Its size in the United States and
Canada.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Prepare at leisure, repent in
haste.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Four hundred men in one section
in Texas have agreed to go barefoot
this summer "to save shoes." It
would be far more patriotic to enlist
and let Uncle Sam furnish the shoes.
—Oshkosh Daily Northwestern.
Those five hundred American rail
way experts, who are going to Rus
sia to restore order out of the rail
road chaos there may get sufficient
experience to perform a similar ser
vice in this country.—Nashville
Southern Lumberman.
When the Stars and Stripes were
flung to the breeze from the peak
of Parliament House, London papers
commented that it was the first tin.e
a fcreign flag had ever flown over
Westminster. Excepting, of course,
theflags on those German Zeppelins.
-—Nashville Southern Lumberman.
Help from the United States is
needed, therefore, not a year from
now, but at once. The Roosevelt
volunteers can be made ready in a
few weeks. We repeat that this is
no time to indulge in hair splitting.
Send them!— Philadelphia In
quirer.
Hard Hit
Timothy O'Krien, while passing
down Main street one morning, was
hit on the head by & brick which
tell from a building in process of
construction. Ho was taken to the
hospital in an unconscious condition,
but was soon revived sufficiently to
send for a lawyer. Some days later
he received a call from his lawyer
who informed him that he had set
tled tyie case, whereupon he peeled
off seven crisp, new SIOO bills. "How
much did you get!" questioned Tim
feebly.
I "Twenty-five hundred dollars," re
plied the lawyer, complacently.
"Twinty-five hundred dollars an'
you give me siven hundred?" scream
ed Tim. "Say, who got hit. by that
brick, you or me?" —Philadelphia
Star.
OUR DMLY LAUGH
\|| )V. 1)0 you ever
XS SlLjl S l forget to mail
\ the letters your
A gives you?
o \2 Not any °f
■y 1 " 1 tenor than she
fM H ' A foreets to take
n| /I the studs out of
IS fflmy dress shirt
fIW I fx before sending
_3 H it to the lauo
_J dry •
THETIC.
Hodge and J
Dodge are J
friends, aren't
Yes. they have
common. They /
were both Jilted /jjfpKu
by tho same
wm
SHE HAD
MANY.
B~ Sister is you
fiance coming
tonight?
Not exactly,
If I \ \\_l-jJI Just A fiance 1
Stoning QUjat
The touch of war time Is com
mencing to be felt in a good many
, i^ i i neßS anc * industrial lines and
wmie we are a long, long ways from
ueing forced to do as has been done
in other countries, yet the number
of new faces looking after certain
work is commencing to be noted. A
man gone here and a man gon
there rather impresses itself upon
re " l °' us. For instance, men
connected with the National Guard
iblfi s ! a r. te(l ',° bre ak in others for
their jobs, although in every in
stance heard of the men who are go
ing to the colors in July are assured
of places when they return. In
?^r„ p,aces men have B h 'en notice
M are golng lnto the militia
organizations and men are being
trained to fill the gaps they hava
1 < there have been a lot
of husky young fellows who have
gone from mills, stores, factories, of
fices, banks and other places Into the
army or navy or marine corps, not
waiting to be drafted, but early in
answering the call to service, going
away with the best wishes of a whole
city and its environs for their safety
in trying duty and certainty of a
joyous welcome home. Then thre
are the men from offices and from
the Capitol and from schools and
colleges who have entered the train
ing camps. It is a pretty impressive
list that Harrisburg is able to show
and the spirit that the city is dem
onstrating is the reason why the line
that Pennsylvania leads In recruiting
appears over Washington dispatches
day after day.
* • • •
Just as an illustration of how the
call to the National Guardsmen to
mobilize strikes in unexpected places
. saif l that a dozen or so
01 the State policemen will leave the
force to don khaki in July. These
men were on the reserve of the Na
tional Guard when they enlisted in
Major Groome's crack force. Last
summer when the Guardsmen were
summoned to go to the border the
.State police had to give men fur
loughs. Hereafter there will be few
men in either army or guard reserve
to get into the police for a while
at least.
• *
Sessions of (he Legislature are
n? n £i to attract the attention
or the public. Ordinarily, the ses
sions of the General Assembly draw
" la ' ly P eople to the Capitol, but as a
f y ? re , maln, y of persons in-
u", le eislation of matter
which is before the lawmakers. As
the sessions draw to a close there
? e nMl? re ., PC ?, ple ln th 6 galleries out
TWv J nat any other time.
4 s . ee . m tl to come here about the
hnmo h.t h 6 Lcßislature is on the
home stietcli to see how they do it
and in the hope that they may be
?iiJ. an K so ? le tlmo when a lively
debate breaks out as is often the
case in the final weeks. For the
next month there will bo many peo
ple in Harrisburg and as the bills
commence to arouse contests on the
floor the gallery crowds will in
crease.
♦ * *
The State Department of Forestry
has issued a reprint of an article bv
■Samuel 1. Dana, of the Federal For
est Service, printed in Munsey's Mag
azine, on "A Forest Tragedy." It is
the story of the rise of a prosper
ous lumber town in Potter county,
of its decay when the ax and mill
had done their work and of the mel
ancholy sight of a fine school house
and other public buildings with few
to occupy them and a township
hardly able to pay the taxes to keep
them up.
• • ♦
Pe ?P' e connected with the Na
tional Guard believe that ln spite of
reports that the Pennsylavnla troops
are going to a southern carnp for
training that therei will be some-*
thing doing at Mt. Gretna during
the late summer and fall. When the
Guard goes into Federal service it
will probably be assembled for a
time at Mt. Gretna as it will take
months to get the southern canton
ments in shape. Then the State camp
site will be used for the preliminary
training: and if it is necessary to es
tablish reserve recruit camps they
will probably be laid out in the
Conewago hills. The State has ex
pended several thousand dollars at
Mt. Gretna in the last few months.
• • *
A good story is being told about
how city police officials blocked the
hold-up game of a foreigner who runs (
a roominghouse. The place was the
refuge of some men used to better
things during their occupancy
oi a room something happened to
the bed in one of the rooms. It fell
apart because of something breaking
or something else, but was easily
repaired. When they were at the
station with their train due in five
minutes the proprietor and a police
man hove in sight. The man de
clared that he had paid $12.50 for
the bed two weeks ago and wanted
the money or arrests. The men de
nied breaking the furniture and the
policemen took the officer's choice
of taking the whole party to the po
lice station. There it developed that
the man had not bought the bed
within two weeks and that the price
was not reliable either. The upshot
was that when the man in charge
at the station heard of the five-min
utes-before-train-time demand he
made some observation on holdups
discharged the men brought in and
ordered the roominghouse man to
"scoot."
But little else Is talked about by
young men nowadays except the reg
istration, and it is to the credit of
the city that so much willingness
is being shown to put down names.
It commences to look as though the
rush to "vote early" which often
marks elections will be put into a
baok place by the effort to "register
early." Not a few liavo been heard
to say that they were going to ba
first to register in their districts.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—General W. G. Price, commandei
of the Artillery brigade of the Na
tional Guard, has been attending lec
tures on artillery for years although
an infantry officer.
—Auditor General Snyder, who la
a former National Guardsman, says
that he will help out in registration
work if it becomes necessary.
—Ex-Speaker 11. P. Walton, reap,
pointed a trustee of the Farview
State Institution, was one of the
members of the commission which
built the establishment.
—E. A. VanValkenburg, the Phil
adelphia publisher, took an actlva
part in the movement to free tha
Lancaster plkt as ho lives in tha
neighborhood and knows what it
means.
—R. L. Watts, State College ex
pert, has been giving much time to
the study qf the potato and will lec
ture on it.
DO YOU KNO\P
That Harrisbnrir has acres and
acres of gardens that arc being
used for vegetable raising where
there were weeds last year?
HISTORIC HARRISRITRO
State conventions of Democrat!
were held here in the twenties t
i boom Andrew Jackson. '